Jean Rostand Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.”

“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”

“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”

“Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.”

“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”

“To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.”

“Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.”

“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.”

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

“The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.”